Drew Dowdell

I know. I own one. I was refering to the pushrod FWD 3.5 and 3.9. We've not seen a RWD version of these engines at all. The 3.6 was designed <apparently> from the get-go to be either FWD or RWD. It needed no substantial modifications to be used in the LaCross or Rendevous.

Have we even seen a longitudinal 3.5 or 3.9 yet? Appartently it's quite hard to switch around an engine that wasn't designed to go both ways. It took a fairly substantial redesign to put the N* into the new STS and XLR.

Sure you are.... you're gay.

I think him having to drive one of those would serve him right for being so picky...

There's that NG CTS steering wheel again....

Chas gets about 18mpg city in his V6 Passat mostly because he drives it like he stole it. When I drive it, I get 23 city.

well aparently not.... I kid I kid!

BLC is the convertible? All the practice was on the G6 so they could get it right for Cadillac </rampant infounded speculation>

truth!

I'm thinking the whining was coming from the front driver's seat location.

Now wait a sec. You can't have it both ways. I get shouted down here because I maintain that the CTS is in the same class as the 5-series because they're the same size and have similar drivetrains. I fight with the people that say that the CTS is in the 3-series class because it shares a price point and is at the bottom rung of the Cadillac lineup. Therefore if I'm wrong about the CTS then the Aveo is in the same class as the Rio, Accent, and Aerio.

boo hiss

and yet still one of the best sellers in it's class...

*patiently waits for 68 to come in and say "if they'd just switched to RWD, the Galant alone would outsell Camry, Accord, Impala, and Sonata combined"*

I can think of two local Mitsu dealers here in PGH. 1. looks like a doublewide trailer... the service department is an old Sunoco station. It's former name was "South Hills Premier Used Autos". 2. is a former Daewoo dealership with a vinyl "Mitsubishi" sign taped over the old Daewoo sign. At night the sign still lights up green and you can clearly read Daewoo under the white vinyl.

I'm parking the CTS in the garage for the next month or two.... this is getting ridiculous!

At 25.... maybe.... above that... not so much.

If Brazil can do 100% ethanol fuel, we can do at least 50% ethanol fuel. Imagine what cutting our consumption of oil in half would do to the fuel market.

The last relevent Eclipse was the second gen with available turbo and AWD. The last relevent Galant was the generation with the turbo and AWD. The 3000GT was their halo car, they lost that.

Enlarged? It looks about normal sized to me.....

If Joe Redneck can't afford a Silverado, he'll buy a Colorado. All that will happen is demand will shift from the big trucks to the small trucks. Profit on the large trucks would go down and profit on the small trucks would go up <as demand increases>. This is exactly what happened with Nissan Maxima and Nissan Altima. Maxima sales are down from where they once were, but Altima sales are way up.

A number of points to address the falsehoods in both the article and some C&Ger's opinions: 1. Corn is one of the least economical of all the potential crops to derive ethanol from. 2. Switchgrass, sugarbeats, Beer manufacturing byproduct, and sugarcane are the most economical. I've seen ratios for sugarcane ethenol in Brazil being 8:1 energy production: energy consumption. 3. Currently you will see a hit in milage running E85. This is due to the engine being tuned to run E85 as a secondary measure. If the engine were tuned for E85 as the primary fuel, the mileage difference would diminish. 4. Petrol fuels are subsidized Let me say that again... Petrol fuels are subsidized Think 100 Billion for Iraq war 2.0 isn't a subsidy? How ever much for Iraq war 1.0 wasn't a subsidy? Personally, I'd rather have the Feds kick in 51 cents a gallon towards my fuel bill if it means my partner doesn't have to go back to Iraq <he served a year there... analyzing fuel ironically>. I'll tie a yellow ribbon 'round my Oldsmobile. We'll protect Kuwait for daddy's V8.

That would be difficult. 1995 was the last year for the Convertible *and* the 3.4 dohc.

uhm, why? If "Joe Redneck" can't afford his an F-150 or Silverado anymore, you think they'll be running to the Toyota and Honda dealers? I doubt it, they'll probably end up at Ford or Chevy.

And I drive a CTS V6 and get 18 around town while my Avalanche gets 14. Yay V-6 fuel efficiency.